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Cowboys drop first game of the season

CLIFF The Cliff High boys basketball team dropped its first of the season. The Cowboys fell to Tec de Monterey of Mexico, 53-46, in the second round of the Lordsburg Tournament this past weekend.

This is a game we shouldn t have lost, head coach Pete Shock said. But, it was a game we needed to play. We played good enough to win, but we just shot the ball terrible.

Cliff was 2-of-16 from beyond the arc, and 6-of-16 from the free-throw line. The Cowboys shot 34 percent from the floor for the game.

Monterrey is by far the best team we have played this year, Shock said. It also has the best player we have seen all season. They have great size with a pair of 6-foot-6-inch posts and the one is a man among the boys.
Tec went up, 18-15, after the first period of play. The second period was very low in the scoring column, as Cliff edged Tec, 8-7, to go into the locker room trailing by two, at 25-23.

Tec outscored Cliff, 14-12, in the third period, and then 14-11 in the final stanza to pull off the victory.

Their defense had an impact on our shooting, Shock said. But, some of it was just us. We choose a bad game to shoot bad, coupled with playing a team that we had a difficult time turning over with our pressure.

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We should learn a lot from this game.

Cliff then regrouped to beat Colegio Bachelleres, 52-40, to win third place in the tournament.

The Cowboys led 26-21 at the break and then outscored Bachelleres, 26-19, in the second half for the win.

We started this game unemotional and uninspired, Shock said. We were really flat in the first half and it was reflected in all aspects of the game. We finally got after it a lot better in the second half.